Hey all just thought I would let you know about this very cool pinball project that
my good friend Wade Krause is doing on Kickstarter.
here's the link
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/til ... rt-of-play
Gotta love the craft
Henry
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This is an interactive Bulletin Board on the topics of Sign making, design, fabrication, History, old Books and of coarse Letterheads, Keepers of the craft. The Hand Lettering Forum features links to resources, sign art history, techniques, and artists profiles. Learn more about Letterheads at https://theletterheads.com. Below you'll see Mchat has been added as a live communication portal for trial, and the Main forum Links are listed below.
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- Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Pinball,..Bring back the Arcade
- Replies: 1
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- Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:42 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Hey Dave (Smith) I went to your website. My jaw dropped after seeing the Old Soul Tattoo sketches you did. It really took me back. I started pencil skecthing again and came up with this. This was done in pencil then I took the sketch into Adobe illustrator and re-traced it. I am also (tonight hopefu...
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:46 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Thanks Dave
-Henry
-Henry
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
"X" the band poster I designed and screen printed (2 color) with my son
- Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:12 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Custom Eldorado for a friend. retraced form a picture
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:07 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Here and illustration I did of my friends Chopped 38 ford convertiable. Homeboys knows how to make custom cars
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:10 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
here's a few newer things I have worked on
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:07 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Hi all,
I haven't been here in awhile, just came by to say hi
Henry
I haven't been here in awhile, just came by to say hi
Henry
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Something I worked on over the weekend. It's two shades of charcoal on a 36" x 48" canvas
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:56 pm
- Forum: Annoucements
- Topic: Happy 2011
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15024
Re: Happy 2011
Happy New Years!!!!! Hope you all have a great 2011.
Henry "loco" Contreras
Henry "loco" Contreras
- Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:02 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: "True Grit" signs
- Replies: 24
- Views: 18416
Re: "True Grit" signs
Kind of on the same subject. There's a guy that part of the whole Gigposter scene. His name is Aaron Horkey. This guy is super talented and his poster sell out as soon as there put out. He did some screen printed posters fot True Grit. You all have to check this guy out. His work speaks for itself h...
- Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:23 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Here's the seperations. I'll be screen printing it dark to light adding white to the fist color until I get to white
- Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
This is going to be my next screen print art piece. I'm hopefully going to my friends shop later today to get the seperations printed out. It's going to a 24"x24" print. I did the quite awhile back and never got around to screen printing it. I'm not getting any younger. THIS IS GOING TO HA...
- Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:05 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Logo
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13505
Re: Logo
The logo looks to busy. to much going on.
I did a quick layout
I did a quick layout
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:16 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Here's a pencil and charcoal drawing I did back in 2007. I have always been a fan of Johnny Cash and have always wanted to do a drawing of him. After he passed I told myself I have to do this.
- Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:15 am
- Forum: Annoucements
- Topic: Happy Thanksgiving week to all!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10120
Re: Happy Thanksgiving week to all!
Happy Thanksgiving
Henry Contreras
Henry Contreras
- Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:11 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Thanks, I like the X poster better myself. When I submitted the posters the High on Fire was screen printed and the X poster was a print out. I use to have some screen printed X posters but when I went looking for them I couldn't find any. I think they got thrown out. Maybe that's what made the diff...
- Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:38 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Hey All, I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. I'm stilll working my day job and I very thankful to have this job. I did a local artshow here in Fresno California about 3 weeks back. It was a tribute to gigposters and I submitted 3 posters. It could be gigposters your previous work. Al...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:29 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Pin Ball Glass ART
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6889
Re: Pin Ball Glass ART
Wade Krause is a very good friend of mine. He is a true craftsman and does what it takes to make things come out awesome. He and Dirty Donny did the pinball game together. Donny doing all the artwork and Wade doing all the production. This game is a one off (that's right they only made one) for Jame...
- Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:05 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Hi all, I haven't been here in awhile just wanted to say hi and stay back in contact with you all
-Henry
-Henry
- Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:13 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Some lettering for a friend
- Mon May 18, 2009 11:39 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
I have one, I just don't use it
-loco
-loco
- Mon May 18, 2009 2:41 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Here a 57 chevy I'm re-tracing in illustrator so it can printed at about 160" wide
The original image is a bitmap and trying to print it at that size will get all pixelated -loco
The original image is a bitmap and trying to print it at that size will get all pixelated -loco
- Sat May 16, 2009 2:49 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Eigenbrot Brewery Curved glass signs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13926
Re: Eigenbrot Brewery Curved glass signs
Truley amazing. I would love to learn some of this. The closest I have ever come is doing re-production pinaball glass
great work
-loco
great work
-loco
- Fri May 15, 2009 7:48 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Something I worked on over the weekend. I'm going to retrace it in Illustrator. It's my wife's name Juliet-Freehand-web.jpg -loco That's Sik Henry, I dig your style I got my eye on you! When you do illustrations do you use the Gradient Mesh tool mostly? Can't wait to see wait to see how that letter...
- Tue May 12, 2009 1:18 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Something I worked on over the weekend. I'm going to retrace it in Illustrator.
It's my wife's name -loco
It's my wife's name -loco
- Tue May 12, 2009 1:13 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Transparent Ink
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6747
Re: Transparent Ink
Here's a link to NazDar screen printing inks
http://www.nazdar.com/screen_printing_p ... &attrID=38
I have used Enamels ink and added tranparent base to them when I was doing reproduction pinball glass
-loco
http://www.nazdar.com/screen_printing_p ... &attrID=38
I have used Enamels ink and added tranparent base to them when I was doing reproduction pinball glass
-loco
- Fri May 08, 2009 7:38 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Letterhead Studios Design
- Replies: 40
- Views: 40672
Re: Letterhead Studios Design
Dave do you have any sketches of your work. I really like see the rough sketches and how or what goes on in a person head. The behind the scenes process. Here's a link to a poster I screen printed for an artist. He did the artwork and I screen printed it for him http://www.gigposters.com/forums/scre...
- Fri May 08, 2009 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Thanks for the comments. They took awhile. most of the time was trying figure out the best way to approach it. As long as I have a high res. photo that's in focus. That is always the hardest part. Alot of click and bend with the pen tool. The pen tool was hard for me to figure out. It use to drive m...
- Fri May 08, 2009 2:07 am
- Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
- Topic: Loco in the house
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25106
Re: Loco in the house
Here's some stuff I did in Illustrator quite awhile back. This was when I was really pushing myself to take Adode illustrator as far as I could take at the time I took a picture if my cell phone and re-traced with the pin tool in illustrator cellphoneweb7zq.jpg This a photo from a car magazine that ...